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Again, you're only wasting your own time. Best of luck

Seems like you're wasting more time messing with this instead of just installing the program. If you plan on 3d designing the case you'll want to probably do so anyway.

Why not just install fusion 360, it is free for hobbyists.

Probably, not sure why'd you want to though instead of using a real computer

Check the model repository, there is a model you can download

If you are using the RVL-PMS from the store, it takes as many batteries as you want to put in parallel. So you could use 6 or even 10, but in practice, your portable will be very heavy and bulky with that many cells. Yes those parts are compatible. The display driver will have an input for...

You can totally remove that solder from the screw hole with braid, but youll need to set your iron to around 400C because the ground plane can sink a lot of heat. Also helps to put a bit of solder on your tip first for better transfer. The easiest place to grab composite is from the pin on the...

Damn nice wiring. No it's not normal to have continuity between composite and ground. You should have about 75 ohms there (maybe your meter detects that as continuous, mine does for < 50 ohms). Where are you pulling composite from? Also, if you think it's a USB issue, short reset to ground and...

If it makes you feel better, 6 layer boards are pretty much worthless for portables. Additionally, a Wii is pretty much the cheapest part of the project. You can pick up a 4 layer board on eBay for around 15 dollars. Seems like you need a bit more practice too. There is no way that u10...

Jeez what did you use to trim that board? Also, you should be using a 4 layer for a portable. EDIT: based on the pictures this board is dead, and not even from the part where you think it went wrong. The whole top (from the second picture) is way too low. You cut through the NAND traces.

Voltage are fine. I said it before and I'll say it again, this looks very questionable. Could definitely be shorting. I suggest you bend it in such a way that it isn't touching the input pin.

Your images appear to be gone now. To clarify, you checked gnd with the 3 pin blob, and 3.3v to the input pin of U10. You want the stripping on the wire to be as small as possible. What I said is that it looks like it may possibly be exposed more than you think and be shorting with the input...

From the picture you attached, several immediate thoughts. First of all, it's hard to tell what's going on at all with all of that flux residue. Grab some IPA and a toothbrush and clean that off. I can also see a solder ball just sitting on the board. That's a recipe for a short when it falls...

It's extremely unlikely the Wii is fried, even if it's shorted. The Wii is pretty resilient. A few notes on your struggles: - Pre-trim, you can check that the U10 trace is cut by using a multimeter on the continuity setting and testing the U10 output leg with a via that's further back on the...

Ignoring the fact that the important chips are vastly distributed around these boards preventing them from being trimmed, all of these consoles use such an absurd amount of power that it's not even worth discussing why you would want to trim them in the first place.

You are correct. Any of the ones listed as 4 layers are good to use.

Been working on the firmware the past few days. Pretty much done with everything feature-wise. - Power button powers the system on, switches to flash drive access when powered off - Fuel gauge is giving battery percentage and low battery alerts - DFU firmware updates work via USB, currently...

Sorry, it was used on PowerMii Lite, I didn't know a different regulator was used on the PMS. After reading the datasheet some more, I can see that the quiescent current draw is not the current draw when the regulator is powered but not enabled, but rather it enters a 1.5uA draw shutdown mode...

In some sense wasted quiescent current draw has something to do with efficiency, but is the wrong term to use when talking about the step down efficiency, which has a substantially greater effect on wasted power.

One different is a quiescent current savings of 2uA, which as you said, is marginal.